Fitting video to screen

[Guest]

Hey, i'm workin' on a short film with some of my friends. However, we wanted
a better shot and so we turned the camera sideways to get both actors on
screen better. Now when I bring it up in windows movie maker and rotate it
90degrees so the scene isn't sideways, it ends up squishing it. Is there a
way to get it to stretch to fit the screen and be the size of a regular clip?

-Spencer

 

[John Inzer]

Hey, i'm workin' on a short film with some of my friends. However, we
wanted a better shot and so we turned the camera sideways to get both
actors on screen better. Now when I bring it up in windows movie
maker and rotate it 90degrees so the scene isn't sideways, it ends up
squishing it. Is there a way to get it to stretch to fit the screen
and be the size of a regular clip?

-Spencer

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Have a look at the following message:

Rotating loses aspect ratio?
http://tinyurl.com/y8htdg

And, maybe the following links
will offer some ideas:

Rotating and Cropping
a Video Scene
http://tinyurl.com/9zslp

VirtualDub
http://www.virtualdub.org/

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

Actually that didn't help. According to WMM my video has a width of 320, but
after rotation it isn't at 320, even though WMM says it is. Isn't there a way
to crop something on WMM without having to download virtualdub? I can't get
virtualdub to open anything.

-Spencer

 

[John Inzer]

Actually that didn't help. According to WMM my video has a width of
320, but after rotation it isn't at 320, even though WMM says it is.
Isn't there a way to crop something on WMM without having to download
virtualdub? I can't get virtualdub to open anything.

-Spencer

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No, Movie Maker cannot crop a video.

If VirtualDub won't open your video clips,
the format must be incompatible.

Maybe converting your video clips to the
..avi format would be worth a try.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk